Civil War & Reconstruction
This region had more factories and railroads.
What is the North?
This key factor that helped industries grow after the Civil War decreased the amount of time needed to transport goods.
What is railroad expansion?
These are reasons people leave their home country, such as war or famine.
What are push factors?
This corrupt political boss ran Tammany Hall in New York City.
Who is Boss Tweed?
This system kept formerly enslaved people working on plantations in poverty.
What is sharecropping?
This event in 1860 led Southern states to secede, fearing the end of slavery.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This business strategy involves controlling all steps of production. The other involves buying out competitors.
What are vertical and horizontal integration?
This 1882 law banned immigration from a specific Asian country.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?
These organizations controlled local governments through bribery and patronage.
What are political machines?
This economic theory says government should not interfere in business.
What is laissez-faire capitalism?
This government agency was created during Reconstruction to help formerly enslaved people by providing food, education, and legal support.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This steel-making process helped industries grow rapidly after the Civil War.
What is the Bessemer process?
This East Coast immigration station processed mostly European immigrants.
What is Ellis Island?
This movement aimed to break up monopolies and restore competition.
What is the anti-trust campaign?
This idea applied “survival of the fittest” to justify inequality in society.
What is Social Darwinism?
This made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term describes wealthy business leaders who helped the economy but were accused of exploiting workers.
What are Robber Barons?
These overcrowded apartment buildings were common in immigrant neighborhoods.
What are tenements?
These journalists exposed corruption and poor conditions in society.
What are muckrakers?
This belief favored native-born Americans and opposed immigration.
What is nativism?
This destructive campaign by Union forces aimed to break the South’s will to fight.
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
This type of business structure allowed companies to raise money by selling shares.
What is a corporation?
This law set quotas to limit immigration based on nationality.
What is the Immigration Act of 1924?
This corrupt political practice included giving political favors and contracts in exchange for votes or money, rewarding loyalty over competence.
What is the Patronage system?
This economy is driven by supply and demand and is the type of government the U.S. had during the Gilded Age.
What is a market economy?